>WTF...
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>James S. Kaplan KG7FU
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** Oh, I get it.
Maybe the W7 users refused to report on their activities due to the
confrontational style of communication of the individual making the
request. Perhaps all those expletives made them do a 75-meter thing
(No, not hold they key down: Turn the dial to another frequency).
Bob may be the "Father of APRS" but he didn't invent AVL, did he?
There are others besides Bob who may be less strongly opinionated than
him (or you) who do see some real use to amateur radio AVL systems
irrespective of the ugly protocols under the hood. Do it
Internet-style, invent a better wheel, submit an IETF draft and get a
standards-track protocol assigned and I'll be the first to make my
APRS-related GPL'd code work with it. In fact, if there were a UDP
assigned number and protocol for AVL multicasts I could use that today
as an alternative method to glue "ugly" APRS RF nets together. After
all, the ugly protocol is now permanent: It's in a real radio
manufacturer's hardware. And I bought one.
73 de Alan N2YGK, APRS-geek (APRS-studs do it on Macintosh)
PS: Sorry about the flame-bait. Just too good a target to resist.
